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| BYF5002 | Biophysics II | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of BIOPHYSICS | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Selcen ABİDİN | | Co-Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Selcen Abidin
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Harun Başoğlu | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | Biophysical examination of systems such as circulation and respiration, learning the events that occur during perception |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | summarize the basics of system biophysics | 1,2,3 | 1,3,5, | | PO - 2 : | explain dynamics and bacis laws of circulatory and respiratory systems | 1,2,3 | 1,3,5, | | PO - 3 : | summarize electrical events during cardiac contraction | 1,2,3 | 1,3,5, | | PO - 4 : | Describe events and cycles in sensory receptors | 1,2,3 | 1,3,5, | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| It deals with biophysical events at the systems level. Basic rules of fluid mechanics and circulatory system dynamics, Respiratory system dynamics, Muscle contraction, Sound properties and hearing biophysics, light properties and vision biophysics, Biological receptors and neural coding |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Muscle conduction, contraction and energy changes | | | Week 2 | Mechanical properties of muscle, basics of EMG | | | Week 3 | Bioelectric events and action potentials in the heart | | | Week 4 | Cardiac dipole, Enthoven triangle, active and passive strains in the heart muscle | | | Week 5 | Fluid mechanics, laws of hemodynamics | | | Week 6 | La place's law, physical properties of vessels and compliance | | | Week 7 | The work of the heart, the cycle of the heart | | | Week 8 | Midterm | | | Week 9 | Respiratory dynamics, surface tension and alveolar mechanics | | | Week 10 | Volume and pressure changes in respiration, gas exchange between alveoli and blood | | | Week 11 | Biological receptors, sensory coding | | | Week 12 | Light and vision, structure of the eye and image formation, angle of view | | | Week 13 | Photoreceptors and retinal translation, potentials in retinal cells, depth vision, color vision | | | Week 14 | Hearing biophysics, properties of sound waves, resonance, sensory properties of sound, decibel concept, sound intensity discrimination, frequency discrimination | | | Week 15 | Adaptation of sound waves in the ear, translation in the inner ear, translation in hair cells, bilateral hearing | | | Week 16 | Final exam | | | |
| 1 | Biyofizik, Prof. Dr. Ferit PEHLİVAN. Palme Yayınevi 1997 | | | |
| 1 | Biyofizik Ders Kitabı, Editör Prof. Dr. Şefik DURSUN, İ.Ü. Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi Yayınları, 2010 | | | 2 | Medical Physiology, Arthur Guyton and John Hall, Sounders Publ., 1996 | | | |
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